Re: Suppressing version warning for binary package installs?

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>]

Maybe pkg_install.conf(5) can be extended to offer a variable or 
variables that either lists known compatible OS versions or a regex 
pattern of compatible OS versions. For example (suggestions):

# OPSYS_NAME defines the operating system name for suppressing the
# warnings from mismatched releases when using HOST_UNAME_RELEASE.
OPSYS=DragonFly
# HOST_UNAME_RELEASE is used to match the beginning of compatible
# operating system releases to suppress the warning when installing
# a package built on a different release. (OPSYS_NAME must be set too.)
HOST_UNAME_RELEASE=2.3

A problem with that is you may forget to update it. May be better to 
hardcode some mappings into pkg_add itself. But those mappings should be 
portable, so can be used by other package installation tools, like 
pkgin.

Or simply extend pkg_install.conf(5) to add a variable that means 
suppress the warning.

See:
pkg_install/files/lib/parse-config.c
pkg_install/files/lib/lib.h
pkg_install/files/add/perform.c
pkg_install/files/lib/pkg_install.conf.5.in